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Martin Blaser’s lab showed a few years ago that exposing mice to low doses of antibiotics very early in their lives changes their gut microbiota and makes the mice gain more fat and gain more body weight later in life. … Continue reading →

Our team at Memorial Sloan Kettering has been investigating the intestinal microbiota of patients receiving bone marrow transplantations for more than eight years now. We have found through several studies that these patients lose important healthy bacteria from their microbiota … Continue reading →

Our bow-tie paper is finally out. Here’s the teaser: How does evolution shape living organisms that seem so well adapted that they could be intelligently designed? Here, we address this question by analyzing a simple biochemical network that directs social … Continue reading →

Kerry Boyle’s PhD paper is out today. It’s still in the early-view, unformatted version but it is now officially published! In this paper we addressed a fundamental question: Why do organisms of many species seem to change their behavior toward … Continue reading →

A conference that used to be a meeting for Bacillus researchers in the Northeastern United States and has broadened to other bacteria as well. This year the NYC/BIG is on June 8th. Hilary Monaco and Jinyuan Yan will talk about their work on … Continue reading →

Cancer cells are not alone: As cancerous tumors grow unregulated cancer cells engage other cells, in their path of destruction like macrophages which are part of the immune system and endothelial cells which make blood vessels. This collection of non-cancer … Continue reading →

Carlos Carmona Fontaine, in between finishing his paper and starting his lab at NYU, found time to make the official 2016 Xavier Lab MUG. Colored in the beautiful parula map, the 2016 mug is the best mug in the world for … Continue reading →